Monique Bornman

alecia de swardt - chair

 

Steps on how I created the chair:
1. go to main menu
2. open a new family template
3. choose metric generic model and open it
4. go to create and select set
5. go to insert and then click on image
6. choose your image that you want to use from the folder that you saved it in
7. go to create and then click on model lines
8. redraw the image op the chair that you used; it must be in 3D
9. go to your project browser and click on the 3D views
10. double click on view 1 and in the top right corner there is a block that you can rotate to set your   drawing in the way you want to.

Mosa's Tutorial Video

Mosa's video

Chair by Mosa

This is Mosa's chair, the video will be uploaded shortly.

Final Revit Chair

I posted the video tutorial earlier on, and then I still edited my chair, here it is.
I've posted the video tutorial again, as the previous quality isn't so good.

Revit chair

How to design a Chair in Revit

Step1: Start

New Families

Open Revit, select New Families, then select Metric.Open new family, select family templates

Step 2: Open new family, select family templates

 

Step 3: Open the English folder

 

 

 Step 4: Select Metric furniture

 

 

Step 5: Start on your reference level under floor plans in the project browser

 

 

Step 6: Select the reference icon in the ribbon

Step 7: Reference Plane on Floor plan

 

 Step 8: Then go onto the elevations in the Project browser and change

 

 

 

 

Step 9: set the distances on the references lines

 

Step 10: The go to the Ribbon and select create then select Extrusion

Step 11: Draw a line along the reference planes

 

 Step 12: After you close the shape select the rectangle icon in the draw icon.

 

Step 13: Select the object and mirror it around.

Step 14: Mirrored objects should look like this

Step 15: This how the 3D view looks like

 

Step 16: Add a profile for the back rest, set your height.

 

 

 

Step 17: Add the arm rest the same way you have added the backrest

 

 

Step 18: Add a void

 

Step 19: The final chair in 3D

 

 

 

 

Chair design in Revit

Steps

1. 1.       Select main menu
   2.       Open new family- template
   3.       Choose metric generic model- open
   4.       Select set (Choose the reference plane [if you are going to draw from the top select a side reference plane and vice versa]
   5.       Select the extrusion tool
   6.       Draw a simple generic shape in the plan view (such as a circle) and accept
   7.       In the side view set the height
   8.       To add the back rest I added another circle in the plan view and moved it up to the second level
   9.       Thus my chair